Literary usage of Dankest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Noble Deeds of American Women: With Biographical Sketches of Some of the by Lydia Howard Sigourney (1855)"They clambered to the highest and meanest garrets, and descended to the lowest,
darkest and dankest ..."

2.Medieval Civilization: Selected Studies from European Authors by Dana Carleton Munro, George Clarke Sellery (1907)"... and the brethren sauntered around or enlivened their idle speech with wine,
the books accumulated dust and moldered away in the darkest and dankest ..."